Relative Dating
What is the oldest layer?
B
Original Evidence in 1912
puzzle fit
"ring" of volcanoes around Pacific Plate
Ring of Fire
Largest division of time
Eon
Makes up oceanic crust
Basalt
Oldest on bottom, youngest on top
Law of Superposition
Monumental Evidence
Sea-floor Spreading
Powers Plate movement
Convection
Geologic time scale divisions
major changes in fossil record
cooling of magma into igneous rock
crystallization
Youngest Layer
3
Sea-Floor Spreading - I came up with it
Harry Hess
Pacific plate - what boundary?
convergent
Extinction of Dinosaurs
110 protons, 171 neutrons, 110 electrons. Atomic Mass?
281
The fault occurred directly after....
E
puzzle fit, climate evidence, ? , fossils evidence, rock evidence, sea floor spreading, earthquakes and volcanoes
paleomagnetism
Subduction occurs
continental - oceanic convergent and oceanic-oceanic convergent
Look at the picture...Welcome to the ___________time period
Precambrian
One of these doesn't belong...a plastic cup, a glass window, a cotton T-shirt, an aspirin pill. Which and why?
cotton T-shirt; made from natural materials
Which is older? Fault B or Inclusion 2
Inclusion 2
Fossil found on Antartica - climate evidence
Glassopteris
East African Rift Valley
Divergent Boundary
Charles Darwin visited these islands and it inspired his theory of evolution
Galapagos Islands
C6H1206
Glucose